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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1941
Page
1
Frederick county wheat producers face the retroactive 49 cent per bushel penalty under the new wheat quota law approved by a May 31 referendum. Farmers protest the method while seeking clarity as county agent Mildred Tidler explains provisions. many lack understanding of the law and its enforcement.
German sources report breakthrough along the Stalin line near Pskov and indicate panzer thrusts toward Moscow Leningrad and Kiev. Berlin asserts Red armies collapsing as Finnish forces knife into Soviet territory and Kiev’s warehouses and waterworks are targeted.
Mr Winchester recalls Charles Garber’s ice cream plant on the Front Royal road and notes his ongoing spring cultivation. His grounds now boast many flowers including 200 gladioli bulbs 200 dahlias and nearly 20 petunia plants reflecting a diligent horticultural effort.
A survey of farmers expresses mixed reactions to a wheat quota law imposing a 49 cent per bushel penalty on excess production. Quotes show support from tenants and smallholders while others criticize timing and fairness, noting quotas from 11.7 to 38.2 acres on farms of 220 acres.
Frederick county engineers report a cloudburst damaged secondary roads over about five miles by twelve miles, from Mount Williams southeast to Middletown. Estimated repair cost up to 5000 dollars, with 3000 dollars minimum. Route 629 634 636 and nearby areas suffered washed material and culvert damage delaying traffic.
About 45 residents of the Berryville avenue Shannon Hill section plan to press the Sanitary and Sewer and Water committees to install a sewer main. They cite legal septic tanks and outdoor toilets as causes of unsanitary conditions and say many homes are unsewered, with nuisance odors and mosquitoes.
Prime Minister Churchill told cheering civil defense workers in Hyde Park that Britain’s air power is expanding after ten months of German bombing. He urged Germans to feel the torments they unleashed and vowed a relentless, escalating bombing campaign on German cities industries and military targets until Nazi rule ends or German people act to remove it.
Richard Forney a 19 year old motorcycle rider was thrown from his bike in a Saturday evening crash at the Winchester air port track. He was unconscious and later stabilized at the hospital after being transported by Kermit Batt who arrived shortly after the incident. No witnesses reported seeing the crash and Forney recalls nothing of the details.
A Boeing flying boat, Bangor, valued at $1,000,000 and weighing 42 tons, undergoes final conditioning at the Pan American Airways base before entering trans Atlantic service for British Overseas Airways. The four motor clipper, camouflaged slate blue and olive drab, arrived from New York and is commanded by Capt Marmaduke Alderson who previously led the Cavalier when it crashed near Bermuda over two years ago.
In Harrisonburg Virginia on July 14 a rally of about 300 Rockingham farmers condemned the wheat quota law. They planned to present petitions carrying the names of 550 local farmers to Secretary of Agriculture Claude R Wickard at a meeting in Assembly Hall.
Marion Hart a 55 year old farmer in Jackson County Michigan burned his 17 acre wheat field in protest of what he calls government dictatorship over crops He began destroying the wheat after being refused a wheat marketing permit for exceeding his AAA quota by two acres
Augusta County petitions add 150 names as the county joins the Rockingham delegation to Washington. Farmers protest retroactive law and quota irregularities, arguing penalties for excess wheat are unaffordable before marketing, and request penalties be waived for durum grain feeding.
Dewitt MacKenzie writes An Interpretation of the War News on the Star back page daily. The column is described as the world's most read foreign affairs commentary, drawn from his extensive international and military background including WWI work, coverage of Versailles, and later encounters with Hitler at Godesberg and Munich.
Cairo dispatch reports that the armistice ending the war in Syria was signed at Acre Palestine at 2 p.m. today. General Sir Claude Auchinleck announced the agreement as British forces oversee the halt in hostilities.
London dispatch reports reliable sources predict a Japanese assault targeting Indo China and Thailand this month, with the move likely to widen the war to the Netherlands East Indies and Australasia.
Gov. W. Lee O'Daniel won the Texas special Senate election over Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson by 1,311 votes in the June 28 race. He will fill the seat long held by the late Sen. Morris Sheppard who died in April.
London reports that the Royal Air Force claimed hits on two 6,000 ton vessels in daylight sweeps over Nazi occupied France and on three more ships during later aerial searches of German shipping in the North Sea.
AP reports Hitler claims breakthroughs along the Stalin line while Berlin and Holland radio echo Kiev fall and advances toward Leningrad Moscow and other targets. Churchill vows intensified bombing and Britain signs a no separate peace pact with Russia as French Vichy hints at nonrecognition amid renewed raids on northwestern Germany.
Worcester County Sheriff J William Hall says Avery Melson 38 has confessed to killing Harry Adams Jr 31 the fisherman found aboard his boat in the Pocomoke River with a shotgun wound to the abdomen Melson allegedly killed over alleged attentions to Adams wife The shotgun used was recovered from the river bottom
Stewart Bell brought a large beetle with crab like pincers and a heavy shell to The Star office for identification and was referred to the Winchester Research Laboratory. Miss Molly Wood reported wheat yielded about 15 bushels per acre, totaling 327 bushels, while barley production fell due to rains during blossom.
Senator Barkley announced after a White House conference that the administration would seek prompt congressional approval to retain draftees and National Guard members beyond their one year of training. The plan aims to keep selectees and guards in service longer, while related hemispheric ban changes were noted as separate and not immediately connected.
Secretary Sumner Welles stated the United States favors Portugal retaining sovereignty over the Azores and Cape Verde Islands. He noted Roosevelt's message on Iceland occupation and stressed American security depends on Atlantic outposts remaining in friendly hands.
Yard party announced for July 18 at Welltown String Music venue. Event details note phone listing Willis Real Estate and estate information, with previous date July 17 and scheduling changes.
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